“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” -Goethe
“An Optimist is someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s more like a cha-cha!” -Robert Brault
Deanna Joy Hallmark
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Tag Archives: cisgender
Still Think Trans Women Have Male Privilege? These 7 Points Prove They Don’t
This article reads like the nightmare I lived in since I was around age five. Reblogged from everyday feminism Deanna Joy Hallmark
Posted in Advocacy, Feminism, Growing Up
Tagged cisgender, feminism, gender, gender identity, girl, memory, objectification, survival, transgender, trauma, women
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Second Thoughts on Being Invisible
My post the other day about the lack of visibility for trans folks I must admit was so full of blaming others that it’s not even funny. I could have easily revised it or taken it off but then I … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Possibilities, Taking charge, Transgender, unconditional love
Tagged cisgender, coming out, diversity, girl, sister, transgender
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Looking Back From Over the Fence
Last time it was a serious piece and it’s done and over with so I believe its time for a few laughs at the expense of our menfolk just between me and my sisters out there. I apologize in advance … Continue reading
Being Woman Enough: More Memories of Being that “Wounded Little Girl”
This has become one of my longest posts so far, but I figured it was time to tell my story which I have been posting in pieces until now. How I came to write this piece or the story behind … Continue reading
To love, serve and remember
Today I read a blog post that was reblogged from a blog called A Kick in the Ballots entitled “The ‘Born this Way’ Argument”. As is my usual way of being, I began to respond because, although the post was thought … Continue reading
Posted in Living in Grace
Tagged beautiful, cisgender, coming out, female, gender, gender affirmation surgery, girl, transgender, transition, women
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Not having to try hard to be myself
Since being transgender seems to me, at least, mainly to be an issue of self-image, we are really not much different than cisgender people who have issues of their own self image, like women with too much hair where it … Continue reading
Posted in Transgender
Tagged bust, cisgender, coming out, female, surgery, transgender, transition, woman
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A Spy in the Enemy Camp 